@ArthurMonnet

Product designer, 15 years. Designed in Paris, shipping from Montréal. Now at the intersection of Design and AI.

Montréal, Québec
Joined June 2007
I shipped arthur.now, an over-engineered portfolio, on purpose. It has an MCP server and an AI chat, so you can ask about my work instead of digging through pages. The case studies have interactive demos you can actually use. There are easter eggs. More than I'm willing to admit. 15 years designing products for other people. I wanted one that's mine. A normal portfolio would've been easier. This one was the point. Built with Claude Code and sleepless nights.
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Showing my wife my software factory
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You should put a pixel-perfect version of your app on your homepage Why? 1. Signing up for new things is annoying if the UI sucks 2. People exaggerate agent-friendliness 3. They just want to do a thing Show a common use case being done with an agent. If your app is not bad, this will increase your conversion rate. This used to be hard to build and maintain, now it is easy. You should probably do it.
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Launch rehearsal complete ahead of Starship Flight 14
🤖 Made with AI
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"People aren't ready, this is gonna change everything" You know what people weren't ready for? Fucking mammoths. Tigers eating them. Monkeys ripping their arms off. The black plague. The ice age. Smallpox. Vikings pulling up on the beach. Drinking water that gives you diarrhea until you die. Getting a scratch and losing your whole leg. The Mongols. The Spanish Inquisition. One volcano can send us back to the dark ages and these safety guys are gonna be shocked. Oh the robots didn't kill us? It was a volcano? Imagine their disappointment as the hot ash rains down on them. A solar flare is gonna explode your phone in your pocket your legs are gonna be covered in battery acid and your bank account will stop working. You're afraid of a computer program doing math? "Things are moving too fast" homie you live on a rock that periodically deletes everything. You are one the most luckiest entities in a 100 light year radius living during a golden era. Cheer up. My ancestors crossed an ocean in a wooden box because they ran out of fucking potatoes. "The social disruption will be enormous!" Nigga World War 2? World War 2? Hop in the people carrier we're landing on the beach. Are these people out of their fucking minds? Do they not know what we've survived already? A couple decades of air conditioning and people suddenly think oh this is the natural condition of mankind. No. We used to have eight kids because seven didn't make it. You're gonna be fine. Man the fuck up. Accelerate.
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Stacking Starship ahead of Flight 14
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Meta VR Glasses Coming Spring 2027.
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In the obsession with AI, too many founders, leaders, managers seem to have forgotten that an engineer with motivation + drive + focus + AI >> hundreds of AI agents without any of those The best products and companies are built by people and teams like that, and will continue to be so Ask yourself, again, why the AI labs hire the best of the best (some of the most driven people in the industry; founders, CTOs etc) if people aren't making the differrence when everyone has access to similar tools already
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"And so we're going to have an expected hold at T-30 seconds, and that's where we're going to wait for FAA approval."
You cannot tell me this isn’t to pressure the FAA into hurrying tf up
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It's isn't just to people with ADHD that this happens. Some tasks inherently take a certain amount of time. An appointment that breaks the afternoon into two blocks of time could leave you with no block long enough to complete a task.
BREAKING: ADHD researchers confirm that having "one single appointment" at 3:00 PM successfully destroys the entire day leading up to it. 1/6
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After capturing over 100 hours worth of exposures, I'm pleased to share my latest "Deep Field" image, containing THOUSANDS of galaxies and a brand-new supernova that just kicked off ~2 weeks ago! Timelapse showing the supernova, prints, and more details in the thread 👇
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Frontier Hackathon in SF next Thursday. @obvious is giving away unlimited free tokens for the day. Come build with us! Register: luma.com/frontierSF
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Stop wishing people a safe flight. Safety is all but guaranteed. Flying commercially is one of the safest things we do. Instead, wish people a pleasant flight.
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just build cool stuff and don’t talk to people
just build cool stuff and talk to people
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POV: you're trying to use the microphone on your computer in 2026
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🎤 is this thing on? I'm coming out of X retirement. I joined @obvious early this year and I've got things to talk about. Come join me in NYC this Thursday at our Frontier event.
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Introducing bokehLab. Figma plugin that makes flat frames look cinematic. Real f-stops, a focal plane, skew and perspective.
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good designers have always done the right one
AI has collapsed the cost of building products, but not the cost of knowing what to build. - The old loop: spec, scope, build - The new loop: build, play, design, ship Prototypes are cheap. Great products still require taste, judgment, and a clear understanding of what users actually need. a16z's @joshelman on the artifact a product manager actually produces: a16z.news/p/product-manageme…
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gonna be 200+ folks signed up for this thing alright nyc, let's see your game luma.com/frontierNYC
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mf be like "it came to me in a dream" and its actually just 10 000 agent swarms writing markdown files on a sandbox and some python code
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New leaderboard just dropped
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